It's that time again! The 5th Annual Black Friday T-Shirt Contest is here!

Hey FatWallet members! Load your favorite graphic design programs, grab your mouse, and harness your creativity because it's time for the FatWallet Black Friday T-Shirt contest! Create for us a witty, or catchy design that portrays the FatWallet spirit of Black Friday. If you win, your design will be worn by hundreds of FatWallet fans from coast to coast. We encourage you to create designs that help to spread the awesomeness of FatWallet with the logo and messaging that will help others learn all the good things about this community and website.

In celebration of our 5th annual contest we're making the prizes bigger and better than ever!

Everyone who submits a qualifying design*:

Receive a link to claim a free FatWallet Black Friday 2012 T-shirt!

Receive a Black Friday T-Shirt Design badge

Receive an entry into a drawing for $50 to shop at your favorite FatWallet store!

Top 10 Designs:

Receive a link to claim a free FatWallet Black Friday 2012 T-shirt!

Receive a Black Friday T-Shirt Design Badge

Receive $50 to shop at your favorite FatWallet store!

Winner:

Receive a box of FatWallet premium shwag

Bragging rights for your awesome design and a Winner's Only badge!

And one dozen shirts you can give to others!

50 Virtual High-Fives from FatWallet employees!

$500 shopping spree to your favorite FatWallet store!

Everyone who enters with a qualifying design* will win a 2012 Black Friday T, so you've got nothing to lose by entering! Only one t-shirt will be awarded per member.

*A qualifying design is a design must meet all the design guidelines, copyright guidelines and are in line with the FatWallet values. (All badges, t-shirts, and prizes will be awarded after the design contest and voting have ended.)

Not the creative type but still want a shirt?

I hope you won't let your lack of skills hold you back from submitting a clever slogan or idea into the t-shirt contest, but if you're absolutely not the "designing" type, you can still get a free t-shirt. We'll be doing a Post a Hot Deal Get a Free T-Shirt promotion in the forums starting October 1st through October 29th!

STEP 1: Grab the Logos & Design Your T-Shirt

Grab the image logos below and review the design guidelines.

You must be a member of FatWallet to submit an entry or vote.

You cannot submit a copy of a design that has been submitted in years past.

Entry must be completely your original work with the exception of the FW logo: no stock images, no copyrighted material, no celebrity images.

Please feel free to enter as many times as you would like for better odds. Only one free t-shirt will be awarded to each FatWallet member.

Design Guidelines

Theme: Black Friday 2012! (You may also incorporate other things into your design, such as: this is our 5th year for our Black Friday T-shirt contest, mention our 2012 Black Friday Deal Finder, Cash Back, online shopping, what you love most about Black Friday and FatWallet, or a related slogan!)

Max graphic area: 17"(wide) x 18"(high) on a T-shirt front.

Design must incorporate full FatWallet.com logo in green and white or green and black. Image files for you to use are below.

PMS green 376 and white; PMS green 376 and black

You cannot alter the FatWallet.com logo in any way.

Swirl can be used as an additional design element.

4 colors max (including the t-shirt color). The FW logo is 2 colors, green & white or green & black, so technically you only have two more colors to play with.

Designs may not include gradients, drop shadows, or glow effects. (They count as more colors to the printers.)

Entry must be submitted as a single JPG or PNG file and the resolution must be clear enough to print. Image files below 100MB will be sent back for revision.

NOTE FatWallet reserves the right to disqualify entries that do not meet design, copyright guidelines or are not in line with FatWallet values. We reserve the right to alter winning design for production suitability. By submitting a design into this contest you giving FatWallet all the rights to the image.

Don't forget to brand it!

Click images for larger format.

STEP 2: Submit Your Design:

Upload your original design image in your reply to this topic

Enter by Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 12:00 PM (Noon) CT

Any designs that we do not feel can be duplicated for t-shirt silk-screening may not be included in the voting. We will notify you with a PM in a timely manner so you have the opportunity to submit another entry.

STEP 3: Promote & Vote

You decide the winner! Visit the Voting Gallery on Monday, October 22, 2012 to view entries and vote!

Need some inspiration?

9/24/12 Update: Please upload only one photo per update so that we can eliminate ones that don't qualify and not eliminate all your designs from the voting gallery. Also please upload the design alone (not on a t-shirt).
10/1/12 Update: Please note that we're only printing one side of the tshirt and designs that include a front and a back will be disqualified if each design does not meet the design requirements individually.

I really like this one. It covers FatWallet.com, BF 2012, and Cash Back total thru 2012 (may have to update it to 38 million). While there is a lot on the shirt, it's not cluttered and the layout makes sense.

AJR said: First entry? For me it is. Hope everyone likes it (and it's in FW good taste)... Good luck to everyone!

Hi AJR,

Thanks for submitting your design. It has been disqualified from the voting gallery because of the drug reference. Please feel free to revise it. PM me if you update it and I will be happy to review it and add it to the voting gallery if the new design fits our design guidelines.

Let's keep the designs a positive reflection on the FatWallet brand.

Thanks!

AJR

Senior Member

posted: Sep. 18, 2012 @ 9:49p

HeatherS4 said: AJR said: First entry? For me it is. Hope everyone likes it (and it's in FW good taste)... Good luck to everyone!

Hi AJR,

Thanks for submitting your design. It has been disqualified from the voting gallery because of the drug reference. Please feel free to revise it. PM me if you update it and I will be happy to review it and add it to the voting gallery if the new design fits our design guidelines.

Let's keep the designs a positive reflection on the FatWallet brand.

Thanks!

No problem. Is there a guideline list? I didn't think it was in too bad taste, but to each is own. I'm sure a bunch of FW'ers got a laugh anyway. Hope my other 2 entries are suitable.

HeatherS4

Media Mamma

posted: Sep. 18, 2012 @ 9:58p

AJR said: HeatherS4 said: AJR said: First entry? For me it is. Hope everyone likes it (and it's in FW good taste)... Good luck to everyone!

Hi AJR,

Thanks for submitting your design. It has been disqualified from the voting gallery because of the drug reference. Please feel free to revise it. PM me if you update it and I will be happy to review it and add it to the voting gallery if the new design fits our design guidelines.

Let's keep the designs a positive reflection on the FatWallet brand.

Thanks!

No problem. Is there a guideline list? I didn't think it was in too bad taste, but to each is own. I'm sure a bunch of FW'ers got a laugh anyway. Hope my other 2 entries are suitable.

Thanks AJR. The guidelines are in the opening post and the reason the drug reference design was disqualified was because it did not positively represent the FatWallet values. Your other two designs qualify. Good luck!

I don't think my design will win this contest unless there are 2 new rules introduced for this contest:1) Separate design category for lady2) Vote by panel of judges not by everyone since majority of FW members are dominated by male

For these reasons, I may withdraw this design until the new rules will become reality hopefully next year...

As was suggested at the end of last year's contest, the next T-shirt type should be a women's shirt for a change for female FW members or for female partners, or have both sexes and allow for a choice.

And/or maybe have a tote bag design contest or polo shirt or something else that is new and different.

AJR

Senior Member

posted: Sep. 18, 2012 @ 11:49p

OP - In the design guidelines it states:

Entry must be submitted as a single JPG or PNG file and the resolution must be clear enough to print. Image files below 100MB will be sent back for revision.

You state "Image files below 100MB" - is that supposed to be 100KB? No one is submitting large files right now - I see 25kb to 250kb images. And to upload a 100MB image here would probably timeout the web browser. Mine have been reduced to 800x800 pixels and about 120kb for easy download and viewing for voting, but the original is much much larger in Photoshop. When/where do you want the larger files submitted? Is that only required of the winner upon submission for printing?

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